Brian Kukowski (4/4/2011)
If, at some point in the future we decide to go to Enterprise, we'd want to (A) upgrade our production Standard installs to Enterprise, and (B) change our non-production installs to Developer to reduce licensing costs.
From what I have seen Microsoft doesn't support that.
I would advise you to be careful about your use of the Developer edition, my understanding from talking to Microsoft is that nobody without a Developer edition license can access the server, or look at the reports created from it if it contains real/production data. i.e. you can't use it for QA/UA with real data if users accessing it, or the results from it, don't have developer licenses.
I would love to be wrong, as it would save us a bunch of money, but that is what Microsoft told me.